If IT bites (or stings) YOU and you die, it's venomous. If YOU bite IT and you die, it's POISONOUS.
For anyone still struggles WITH the difference think of it this way:
How often do you hear the word "poisoned" versus "envenomated"? That's because people die from eating the wrong thing all the time. As a species, we're constantly eating, whereas it's MUCH less frequent for us to be stung or bitten. It's also a huge trope to hide poison in people's food, within all forms of visual media, as well as a popular way too kill others irl (statically, especially for women, just, fyi ^-^). So, we had the term "poisoned" all the time, but we hear "envenomated" much less because because far more people eat than are bitten or stung.
That bug, was NOT poisonous, it was VENOMOUS!!!
If IT bites (or stings) YOU and you die, it's venomous.
If YOU bite IT and you die, it's POISONOUS.
For anyone still struggles WITH the difference think of it this way:
How often do you hear the word "poisoned" versus "envenomated"? That's because people die from eating the wrong thing all the time. As a species, we're constantly eating, whereas it's MUCH less frequent for us to be stung or bitten. It's also a huge trope to hide poison in people's food, within all forms of visual media, as well as a popular way too kill others irl (statically, especially for women, just, fyi ^-^). So, we had the term "poisoned" all the time, but we hear "envenomated" much less because because far more people eat than are bitten or stung.